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This isn't the most pressing issue in the world, but a few days ago I suggested that some seemingly contradictory poll numbers on Obama's mortgage rescue plan might actually be perfectly compatible. Even though it's counterintuitive, it's possible that a majority of people approve of his plan and that a majority of people think it's unfair because it helps out homeowners who were irresponsible.Today's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll confirms this. They asked questions about both support and fairness in the same poll and the results are below. The most likely interpretation is that about 20 of the country thinks the mortgage rescue rewards irresponsible borrowers but supports the plan anyway. This shouldn't come as a big surprise, either. Lots of us have had to swallow hard over the past few months and support interventions of one kind or another solely because, even though we don't like them, they seem to be necessary to save the economy. This is just one more.Advertise on MotherJones.comKevin DrumPolitical BloggerKevin Drum is a political blogger for Mother Jones. For more of his stories, click here. RSS | Twitter
House Republicans have undertaken a war on environmental regulations since assuming the majority earlier this year, taking a total of 125 votes on measures that would take undermine environmental laws or take away the government's authority to set regulations. Together, the measures make this "the most anti-environment Congress in history," says Rep. Henry Waxman,www.sacprada.net/11-loisirs-sac-prada, the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Democratic staffers on the Energy and Commerce Committee compiled the list,have differences, which includes stand-alone bills and amendments filed to other pieces of legislation. Fifty of the measures have targeted the Environmental Protection Agency, though the departments of Interior (25 measures) and Energy (24) have also been in the crosshairs. Twenty-eight have sought to undermine elements of the Clean Air Act,nike shox norge, blocking the agency from issuing rules on particulate matter, ozone pollution,click here. To follow him on Twitter, or mercury, for example. Twenty of the measures have specifically targeted rules or programs that deal with climate change—like blocking the US from contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, defunding the EPA's program that tracks greenhouse gas emissions,www.burberrysac.net, and stopping the Department of Homeland Security from establishing a Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. Of course,the argument goes, we've covered the House GOP's ambush on environmental rules here pretty extensively. But now those attacks have been compiled in a searchable format! And the full list is really something, considering Republicans have only held the House since January. Just think what they could do in the next 15 and a half months!Advertise on MotherJones.comIf You Liked This, You Might Also Like...Is the EPA a Job Killing Machine? (Hint: No.)The GOP&039;s EPA AmbushRepublicans want to cut the agency's budget by a thirdand that's just for starters. The CIA&039;s Weather UndergroundAre Republicans putting the intelligence community's climate projects on ice?Budget Axes NOAA&039;s Climate ServiceHouse GOP Moves to Gut the Clean Water ActKate SheppardReporterKate Sheppard is a staff reporter Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. She Tweets here. RSS | Twitter
One particularly telling moment at Thursday night's Republican presidential debate came from co-host and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Speaking to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Kelly repeated a common, if medically inaccurate, anti-abortion talking point: Congressman Paul, you have said that you believe that life begins at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life. If you believe that, how can you support a rape exception to abortion bans, and how can you support the morning-after pill? Aren't those lives just as innocent? Let's leave aside the suggestion that we should force women to carry the children of rapists to term and just deal with the premise that using the morning-after pill, or plan B, constitutes taking an "innocent" life. Well, no, not based on any medical definition of pregnancy. Pregnancy doesn't begin until the fertilized egg implants in a woman's uterus. This is exactly what the pill is designed to prevent. Thus,chaussures prada, no pregnancy to end. Let's let the Mayo Clinic explain: Depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, the morning-after pill can prevent or delay ovulation, block fertilization, or keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. If that's the case, then by Kelly's standard,nike shox canada, any kind of birth control or even just having your period could constitute abortion,Donald Wildmon, too.Advertise on MotherJones.comIf You Liked This, You Might Also Like...Inside Virginia&039;s Abortion CrackdownIf draconian new building rules take effect, the 3,900 patients of the Falls Church Planned Parenthood clinic could be SOL.The Abortion Debate,they become one, Coming to a Bumper Near YouMixed Bag in South Dakota Abortion Script DecisionPanel Recommends Free Birth Control; Anti-Abortion Groups Flip OutKate SheppardReporterKate Sheppard is a staff reporter Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. She Tweets here. RSS | Twitter
House Republicans have undertaken a war on environmental regulations since assuming the majority earlier this year, taking a total of 125 votes on measures that would take undermine environmental laws or take away the government's authority to set regulations. Together, the measures make this "the most anti-environment Congress in history," says Rep. Henry Waxman,www.sacprada.net/11-loisirs-sac-prada, the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Democratic staffers on the Energy and Commerce Committee compiled the list,have differences, which includes stand-alone bills and amendments filed to other pieces of legislation. Fifty of the measures have targeted the Environmental Protection Agency, though the departments of Interior (25 measures) and Energy (24) have also been in the crosshairs. Twenty-eight have sought to undermine elements of the Clean Air Act,nike shox norge, blocking the agency from issuing rules on particulate matter, ozone pollution,click here. To follow him on Twitter, or mercury, for example. Twenty of the measures have specifically targeted rules or programs that deal with climate change—like blocking the US from contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, defunding the EPA's program that tracks greenhouse gas emissions,www.burberrysac.net, and stopping the Department of Homeland Security from establishing a Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. Of course,the argument goes, we've covered the House GOP's ambush on environmental rules here pretty extensively. But now those attacks have been compiled in a searchable format! And the full list is really something, considering Republicans have only held the House since January. Just think what they could do in the next 15 and a half months!Advertise on MotherJones.comIf You Liked This, You Might Also Like...Is the EPA a Job Killing Machine? (Hint: No.)The GOP&039;s EPA AmbushRepublicans want to cut the agency's budget by a thirdand that's just for starters. The CIA&039;s Weather UndergroundAre Republicans putting the intelligence community's climate projects on ice?Budget Axes NOAA&039;s Climate ServiceHouse GOP Moves to Gut the Clean Water ActKate SheppardReporterKate Sheppard is a staff reporter Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. She Tweets here. RSS | Twitter
One particularly telling moment at Thursday night's Republican presidential debate came from co-host and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. Speaking to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Kelly repeated a common, if medically inaccurate, anti-abortion talking point: Congressman Paul, you have said that you believe that life begins at conception and that abortion ends an innocent life. If you believe that, how can you support a rape exception to abortion bans, and how can you support the morning-after pill? Aren't those lives just as innocent? Let's leave aside the suggestion that we should force women to carry the children of rapists to term and just deal with the premise that using the morning-after pill, or plan B, constitutes taking an "innocent" life. Well, no, not based on any medical definition of pregnancy. Pregnancy doesn't begin until the fertilized egg implants in a woman's uterus. This is exactly what the pill is designed to prevent. Thus,chaussures prada, no pregnancy to end. Let's let the Mayo Clinic explain: Depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, the morning-after pill can prevent or delay ovulation, block fertilization, or keep a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. If that's the case, then by Kelly's standard,nike shox canada, any kind of birth control or even just having your period could constitute abortion,Donald Wildmon, too.Advertise on MotherJones.comIf You Liked This, You Might Also Like...Inside Virginia&039;s Abortion CrackdownIf draconian new building rules take effect, the 3,900 patients of the Falls Church Planned Parenthood clinic could be SOL.The Abortion Debate,they become one, Coming to a Bumper Near YouMixed Bag in South Dakota Abortion Script DecisionPanel Recommends Free Birth Control; Anti-Abortion Groups Flip OutKate SheppardReporterKate Sheppard is a staff reporter Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. She Tweets here. RSS | Twitter
